Wine Times

Will Lyons - wine critic - and Charlotte Ivers - restaurant critic - and both with The Sunday Times head off to the seaside for a fish and chip finale to the current Wines Times season. They are joined in Brighton by local chef Sophie Taverner, where they discover the perfect paring for battered cod, chips and mushy peas - is it English sparkling, Spanish white wine, or sherry (yes, really)?

Wine 1 - NV Harrow & Hope Brut Reserve No.8, Marlow, Buckinghamshire ,England

Wine 2 - 2023 Heredad Chavarri Albariño Rías Baixas, Spain 

Wine 3 - NV Delicado Fino Sherry, Jerez, Spain

All wines are available from The Sunday Times Wine Club

Photo of Will Lyons, Charlotte Ivers and Sophie Tavener - credit-Tim Allen

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Will Lyons - wine critic - and Charlotte Ivers - restaurant critic with The Sunday Times planned an alfresco picnic on Hampstead Heath, but the changeable English weather means a last minute change of venue. Join them in Charlotte's kitchen where they try Rosé, Rioja and French white wine with Charlotte's summertime spread. While the country now bakes in a summer scorcher, we recall cooler times!

Wine 1 - 2023 Provence Rosé, Whispering Angel, Côtes de Provence, France 

Wine 2 - 2024 Vignobles Canet Picpoul de Pinet, Languedoc, France

Wine 3- 2023 Flor de Muga Rosado, Rioja, Spain

All wines are available from the Sunday Times Wine Club

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Will Lyons - wine critic - and Charlotte Ivers - restaurant critic with The Sunday Times drop in to the home of fellow columnists and podcasters, Esther Walker and Giles Coren - restaurant critic of The Times. Giles prepares lunch with one of his signature dishes “Linguine alla Bottarga” - a Sardinian fish roe favourite of his. But will the four agree on which of the three C's should go with it? - Champagne, Chianti or Chardonnay. Around the kitchen table they discus why writing about food and wine is actually not the best job in the world (really?) and Charlotte's love of natural wine divides opinion.

Wine 1 - NV Champagne Tattinger Brut Réserve, Reims, Champagne, France.

Wine 2 - 2021 Chianti Classico, Fontodi, Tuscany, Italy.

Wine 3 - 2021 Chardonnay, Vasse Felix, Margaret River, Western Australia.

All wines are available from The Sunday Times Wine Club.

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Sunday Times wine columnist Will Lyons and restaurant critic Charlotte Ivers choose wines for a successful summer wedding. Along with their guests, Canadian winemaking husband and wife team Thomas and Mary Delaney-Bachelder - they sample Crémant, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir to find the perfect paring for canapes and confetti!

Wine 1 2018 Roche Lacour Cuvée de Réserve, Crémant de Limoux, France 

Wine 2 2021 Bachelder Les Villages Bench Niagara Chardonnay

Wine 3 2024 Pinot Noir, Le Champ des Etoiles, Languedoc, France

Wines 1 and 3 are available from The Sunday Times Wine Club

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Sunday Times wine columnist Will Lyons and the paper's restaurant critic Charlotte Ivers are joined by Times Radio presenter - and Celebrity MasterChef winner - Alexis Conran. Their mission this week is to match three different wines from Greece, Lebanon and South Africa, to Alexis's delicious homemade moussaka.

Wine 1 - 2023 Kir-Yianni Assyrtiko, Florina, Greece

Wine 2 - 2020 Ixsir Altitudes Rouge, Batroun, Lebanon 

Wine 3 - 2024 The Pavillon rosé, Boschendal, Western Cape, South Africa

All wines are available from The Sunday Times Wine Club

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How to lift simple chicken into culinary heaven! The Sunday Times wine columnist Will Lyons and restaurant critic Charlotte Ivers try three very different and fascinating wines with a chicken pie - a Burgundy, and a Beaujolais, plus a Pinot Noir from New Zealand. And on the way discuss the nation's new obsession with chickens wings and other matters crucial to conversations about food and wine!

Wine 1 -2022 Côte de Beaune Blanc, Joseph Drouhin, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy

Wine 2 -2023 Beaujolais Villages, Vignerons De Bel Air, Beaujolais

Wine 3 -2023 Pinot Noir, Hunter’s, Marlborough, New Zealand

All wines are available from The Sunday Times Wine Club

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The Sunday Times wine columnist Will Lyons and restaurant critic Charlotte Ivers are joined by Leonard Swan, the executive chef at Milk Beach in London. Together they try steak with contrasting Australian wines.

Wine 1 - 2020 Art Series Chardonnay, Leeuwin Estate, Margaret River

Wine 2 - 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon, Vasse Felix, Margaret River

Wine 3 - 2022 Cabernet/Sangiovese, McPherson, Victoria

All wines are available from The Sunday Times wine Club

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A bonus edition of Wine Times, presented by The Sunday Times restaurant critic Charlotte Ivers with special guest chef Dean Edwards. Together they share Dean's delicious summer risotto plus three wines - Champagne, red and rose.

Wine 1 - Champagne: Chateau de Bligny Grand Reserve

Wine 2 - Red: Maison Dominique Piron Chénas 2021

Wine 3 - Rose: Domaine du Mas Ensoleille Rose Sélection Parcellaire 2024 

All of the wines are available from The Sunday Times Wine Club.

This episode of Wine Times is in paid partnership with Celebrity Cruises.

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Will and Charlotte try apple crumble with Sauternes, Tokaji and Port and discover a whole world of debate about sweetness itself! Food, wine and conversation with wine columnist and vice president of The Sunday Times Wine Club, Will Lyons and restaurant critic Charlotte Ivers.

Wine 1: 2019 L’Épiphanie de Sauternes, Bordeaux, France

Wine 2: 2018 Royal Tokaji Blue Label 5 Puttonyos, Hungary

Wine 3: Averys 10-year-old Tawny Port, Douro Valley, Portugal

All the wines in the series are available at www.sundaytimeswineclub.co.uk

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Food, wine and conversation with wine columnist and vice president of The Sunday Times Wine Club, Will Lyons and restaurant critic Charlotte Ivers. Will and Charlotte experience the differing taste of a Barnsley lamb loin chop with Châteauneuf-du-Pape, a Bordeaux from France, and a Spanish Rioja.

Wine 1: 2011 López de Heredia, Viña Tondonia, Tinto Reserva, Rioja, Spain 

Wine 2: 2022 Le Prince de Courthézon, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Rhône Valley, France 

Wine 3: 2021 Château La Clarière, Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

All the wines in the series are available at www.sundaytimeswineclub.co.uk

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